When she came to our office all the boys were floored. And probably the girls were either jealous or scornful of her. To say that she was sexy would have been an insult to her. She was smoldering, the way she moved, she carried herself and the way she dressed. she was wearing a plain white semi-transparent chiffon top, and a body hugging jeans. The top was a...
Chapter Three: Bronze Huntress Like a colossus, the skyscraper towered over the City of Manhattan. A gleaming spike of steel and brick over one hundred stories tall, topped by a dirigible mooring mast, it dwarfed the structures around it into insignificance. On the 86th floor of this impressive building, an elevator door opened. Her face flush with excitem...
"BOTTOMS UP!!!" We all shouted in unison and downed the fifth round of shots that night. The tequila burned my throat and the fumes almost seemed to come out my nostrils. I sucked on the lemon and winced at its tartness. "Well done, Janu." Abir leaned in, squeezed by shoulder and rubbed my back. I giggled. I looked up and saw my friend Kriti looking at me...
Rajesh and Priyanka With heavy heart Rajesh and Priyanka entered Shaina's house. They knew they were in trouble. Rajesh had committed the most foolish crime of trying to embezzle some money from his office by trying some forgery. Shaina, his boss, had caught him red handed and wanted to hand him over to police immediately. But somehow, after much pleading a...
It started very serendipitously. On a warm summer night in Delhi. I had returned home from a long day at work. I took a cold shower to wash away the day's worries. Got out of the shower, with a towel wrapped around me and went into my bedroom to get dressed for bed. My standard sleeping garb in summers was a loose t-shirt (no bra) and shorts (no panties). As...
Baron Bartholomew cracked open the door of his daughter's bedchamber. Like the Lord's prayer, it was a dawn ritual he had developed after the death of his eldest son. He gazed upon the young woman in proud silence, watching her chest rise and fall under the rich silk sheets he had brought back from Palestine. Christine looked safe while locked in her dreams....
It was always the same. Friday lunchtime in the pub, just prior to putting the final touches to my weekly column and handing in my 'copy' to our beleaguered editor, Tom Bowler; I would hold court to my now regular gathering - a group of university students who knocked off early for the weekend on Fridays. They sat all around me at the big old wooden table in...
"Dude, c'mon. It smells like vomit. I think the last guy threw up into this." "Sorry fella, hood stays on. Lieutenant's strict about procedure." Dan had been awake in the interrogation cell for 15 minutes. His brain felt like a ball of lukewarm tar, courtesy of the mana burn he'd suffered in the cathedral, but at least it was clearing up quickly. The devs...
I'd noticed her looking at me several times-often as we passed in the hallways and as we rode the elevators to and from classes where we were conservatory students. She was small--the top of her head barely came up to my chin, and I was only 5'11". But much more striking than her small stature were her eyes-- of a strange, mellow brown, suffused with a pecul...
What Angela had to say to Ally at breakfast in the morning two weeks later hit her doubly hard because of the telephone call she made before coming down to breakfast in order to get through to Europe while the embassies there were still open. She already was in a melancholy and edgy mood, because, although Miranda had recognized her on a few visits—not more...